Maya Review 2

Correlation to State Content Standards

7.7.2: Study the roles of people in each society, including class structures, family life, war­ fare, religious beliefs and practices, and slavery.

7.7.5: Describe the Meso-American achievements in astronomy and mathematics, including the development of the calendar and the Meso-American knowledge of seasonal changes to the civilizations’ agricultural systems.

Expected Student Outcomes (Objective)

Students will be able to:

1. Explain and Identify the Mayan origins, rise, fall, and achievements of the Classic Period.

2. Critique the latest discovery explaining the fall of the Mayan Civilizations.

Common Core Literacy Standard

RH 1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.

RH 7: Integrate visual information (eg. in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.

WHST 2: Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events,...

WHST 4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Anticipatory Set (3 min):

Starter: 5 W's: Students will the events that took place "This Day in History" and identify the 5 W's.

Direct Instruction (10 min.)

SDAIE: Direct Teach: Mayan Review: Teacher will go over the directions and explain where to find the answers. Then explain to students the recent develops with this mystery as archeologists use the latest technology to further understand what happened.

Guided Practice (10 min.)

SDAIE: TPS: Maya Review: Teacher will go over the answers with the students. Students will be selected at random to answer one of the 9 questions of the review.

Independent Practice (20 min.)

SDAIE: Close Read/Metacognition: Mayan Review: Students will have to answer 9 questions that deal with the origins, rise, fall, and achievements of the Mayan Civilization.

SDAIE: Video Clip/QuickWrite: Mayan Downfall "Unexplained": Student will watch a video clip that shows the most recent data explaining what happened to the Mayan Civilization and will be asked to critique it.

Homework

Complete Edpuzzle "The Mayan Disappearance" due September 17, 2021.

Closure (2 min.)

1. Clean up.

2. Dismiss Class.

Lesson Modifications for GATE, RSP, and EL Students

EL: Projector (visuals), questioning, chunking, cognitive words, repetition, translation in Spanish.

RSP: Projector (visuals), questioning, modified assignments, check for understandings.

GATE: Require answers that will demonstrate depth and complexity of fertilization.